1 trash truck to Battle Creek MI (Monday)

... spending the night at home

... this started yesterday. I was driving off road somewhere rural when the call came in. Local dispatch needed a driver for a trip because 'someone backed out.' It was a couple more miles than I usually do for that carrier and it is way beyond my '6 hour window' of accepting trips. But I checked with BB and we decided to take the trip.

It needs to be there by Wednesday but things are still unknown as to other plans that haven't fallen in to place yet. I call back and accept the trip. Cell service is still 'iffy' but hopefully we got everything right.

Later Thursday, I realize that I had <> committed to not being gone more than a day at a time ... Opps. But after that I looked at the weather forecast and it looks like it will be either raining or still wet for most of the next week so not really an issue.

Then today, Friday, dispatch calls again to make sure what we had agreed on Thursday, I only played dumb for a few seconds ...

Later dispatch calls back to see when I am leaving. I still do not know. There has been a couple of times where they have wanted me to shuttle other drivers because 'I am going that way anyways ...' but we are trying not to do that.

But this time it is because the shipper has so many trucks in their lot that only the ones that are leaving will not be blocked in by other trucks. So I call it ... we will wait until Monday to leave.

Late in the day I get a message, my other maybe plans will not happen this weekend. IF we hadn't had to tell the shipper I wasn't leaving, we could have left Sunday and been back a day earlier. Oh well. Now we have a three day weekend.

There was work we could have done today but we may not have made it home today. Those trips are better when we can string a few like trips together. BB didn't want to work and I haven't been home for a day for three plus weeks so we sat.

Load board

US - 192

IA - 11/9

MN - 1

WI - 9

There are still one day trips that we could have done Monday if we hadn't taken the MI. IA has RV's going to WI and TX. There is another truck in KS coming back to MN.

Right now there is not anything in the MI/IN coming back to WI or MN but those come and go quickly. We are running during the week so they will be adding stuff, we just have to look often enough to grab it.